New Arts Collaboration

Concert Premiere in 2021

Composer x Visual Artist

belinda reynolds, composer, living, oakland, composition — BELINDA REYNOLDS

WORDS

"Dynamics and tones of the audio collage, with a recording of the poem Words written by pianist Ting Luo, to create the musical ‘DNA’ of the solo piano part."

video artist, visual art, http://www.videosavant.net/, exhibition, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Communication — CHARLES WOODMAN

Jean Ahn, UC Berkeley, Ensemble Ari, Pianist Lecturer — JEAN AHN

FOOTSTEPS

" A piano suite with recording tape and digital imaginaries."

NO. 1 Snow

NO. 2 Sand

NO. 3 Asphalt

NO.4 Crossroad

NO. 5 Mars

Singapore artist, visual designer, Berlin, architecture, digital imaginary — JO HO

JULIE BARWICK

Around

"Mix and blur the sounds that have surrounded me: distant construction, simple household sounds, and even the nearby sounds of nature in an urban environment with virtuosic piano technique. "

''External and internal spaces began to blend, allowing the mind to sink into the place where dreams, memories, and fragments of our previous selves were waiting to be unearthed and brought into the light.''

NICKI DAVIS

Hypothesis

''Each piece projects an ongoing present, expressing moments with particular shapes and phenomenons.''

I. Purified

II. Breath

III. Shudder

LORAINE WIBLE

How Deep is the Valley

"The piece is for piano and electronics that juxtaposes high-register pentatonic with low-register whole-tone harmonic colors. It is a brief meditation on insignificance and displacement, as if from the view of a nomad with no place to rest, interacting with a Max MSP app to process the amplified piano."

JOSHUA CURRY

LE NUOVE FORME

''LE NUOVE FORME is a long, continuous, but not linear process in which the composer explored the potential of an object-oriented composition method, musically speaking a dialogue between evolution and motionlessness.''

''In her work she is interested in exploring a momentary nature of time and space, and the conflicting forces that shape land and humans.''

Composer

DANNY CLAY

Six Threads

"A six one-minute movements for piano in the style of 'Threads' where musician and video engage in a dialogue that explores the relationship between live and recorded sound and movement. This a series of "video-moments musicaux’’ for live music and pre-recorded music. "

Mu Absence

"Unlike European landscape paintings, in Japanese landscape paintings, by placing “ma” in the center of the painting, it expresses the distinctive spatio-temporal aesthetics found in Japanese expressions. Mu Absence seeks to identify the imperceptible within the degrading reverberations between two notated sounds of the piano. The multi media work explores the Japanese homonym with meanings such as "nothing", "dream", and "naught"."

Cornkind

The piece is based on a poem by Frank O'Hara and it is a melancholic exploration of every day sounds (where sometimes musical instruments are treated as ‘found’ sounds). At times ambient, other times insistent, the record forms an arc of snapshots, a suspended, static document of five days in the composer’s life in the studio.

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